Is this your own server or a share host? Do you expect some have load? Is a securiy pack installed like mod-security? This can cause trouble if the parameters set to small.Blank pages also comes up if the server kill the script execution due execution time restriction or memory problems. Another source of blank pages can be corrupted languages files.

Your log looks stange. File does not exits messages while try to watch a posting sound like server problems. The webserver is unable to access the filesystem where the files be.

ok. i deleted said files. it rebuilt some files, but not in the cache folder. the islands i've specified should appear are not all appearing, and those that do appear are way out out date (ie, not updating at all).

indeed i did have a suspicion that the server ran out of disk space even though i was well under quota. this was the beginning of the problem, i feel. i had problems uploading even small files at one point. this was fixed, and disk space is no longer an issue. however, the problems this left behind are still being felt!

i use less than 5% of my allotted bandwidth, so i'm sure that isn't the problem. the issue started with lack of disk space, and while that's now been fixed, cleaning up the mess is taking quite a deal of time.

i did indeed have file upload problems a few days ago. even users uploading small pictures had them fail. but this was then fixed by, among other things, deleting the ginormous log files that were logging php errors.

once the disk space issue was fixed, we could upload again, and system behaviour improved, with the exception of the white screens, and the left and right columns, which refuse to update.

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I have some larger values on my site. Is it possible to test it?max_execution_time 120post_max_size 32Moutput_buffering no value

Another option: do you know beyondcompare from scootersoft? You can do a filecheck of your local archive of threads 7.2 against your installation and check if there are modified or corrupt files exists. Maybe something goes wrong while you run out of space. Its just a check to be sure.

yes, i've been periodically deleting contents of templates/compile and also sessions, as previously suggested by gizmo. it certianly feels like the cache is not updating for some reason, but the timestamps on the files in the cache directory seem to be recent; just that the contents are completely out of date!

it's normal for the timestamps to be old, since the cache only updates periodically, and the files in the templates/compile directory can be quite old since they only get updated when a template is changed.

Unfortunately, it's pretty tough to figure out what it could be. Since you're not getting any errors in the logs, it's really hard to say.

Is it a completely blank page? Meaning if you view the source, is there anything at all?